all very well

1. All right or quite true as far as it goes. For example, It's all very well for Jane to drop out, but how will we find enough women to make up a team? This idiom, first recorded in 1853, generally precedes a question beginning with “but,” as in the example. Also see well and good.

Example Sentences

"It's all very well saying 'you've got to do this, you've got to do that' but you're a woman, you're in there and it's so hard to get jobs anyway and you don't want to make a fuss," she explained.

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"I don't want to criticise former colleagues too much," he says, "but it's all very well and good if it's not your children who are missing."

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"There is a bit you can park in that is free, but that is all very well if you are young and fit, but one of my sisters has a sore back, the other one is waiting for a hip operation, so it's difficult for them."

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"It is all very well to propose to people that they should eat a high-protein slurry to keep themselves well," he argues, "but… I don't think it is something we should impose on already marginalised groups of people."

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It's all very well for the Treasury to take measures to soothe the bond markets, where government debt is traded.

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